Gwen Hyman

Director, Center for Writing, and Adjunct Assistant Professor

Gwen Hyman studied theater and political science at York University, and literature at the University of Toronto. She earned her PhD in English at Columbia University. Her teaching and publications focus on literature in English in the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries, writing, gender studies and food studies. She is the author of Making a Man: Gentlemanly Appetites in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel (Ohio) and co-author, with Andrew Carmellini, of Urban Italian (Bloomsbury) and American Flavor (Ecco).

Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.